Bye Bye Blago!!! *Wave* (the second politician in as many weeks to leave our graces)

And there ends another corrupt government officials tenure in an office of power. Unlike so many people who make mistakes in our government at all levels, this one official was removed. Now some have said this is premature and that he still may be cleared by the legal process of the judicial system. But the blessing of our form of government is we do not have to wait for that to happen. He has been removed (and thus some level of guilt is attached) by the House AND Senate, with impeachment passed in the House with only one "no" vote and the Senate with NOT ONE Senator voting against conviction.

The now ex-Governor claimed this is setting a "dangerous and chilling precedent" in his conviction. Throughout politics of the state of Illinois, corruption is something that can't be denied. And if this new "precedent" is to continue to convict guilty government officials, then this is one precedent which we not only can, but must, allow.

Blagojevich, in his claim that that "I will fight. I will fight. I will fight until I take my last breath. I have done nothing wrong," shows us that he is still convinced that corruption comes with the job. Selling a US Senator's seat is not the right thing to do. And with "his closest cronies" (as the AP article labels them) already being convicted, it is only more talk from a man who has to this point, shown no real reason to be trusted. His only defense, he did nothing wrong; all-the-while mounting evidence, which he in no way factually disputed, proves he is guilty. We would be just plain naive to say that he is the only (or even more corrupt) official in the US. Some may never be caught and some may take digging to uncover, but such vigilance pays off, as we can prove by this one example.